What color is Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988)?
Nor really from that of Haiti, which he did not know and where his father, Gérard Basquiat, was born in Port-au-Prince in 1930, an accountant and a very serious man who did not joke with education.
Nor really from that of Puerto Rico where his mother, Matilde Andrades, came from, who took him to MoMA (Museum of Modern Art) and the Brooklyn Museum without him ever seeing a face that looked like him (we not talking here about the heavy maternal psychiatric worries).
Basquiat, the shy young man with short hair, the young rebel with the half-shaved head drawing him like a cockpit on his head, in the concerts of the Village.
The successful artist whose signature cross-shaped dreadlocks have the color of New York.
The alternative New York of a rebellious young generation who rely on creation to express themselves and live.
The often black or mixed-race, that is, “coloured,” New York of a Wasp society that dictates the rules and…
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